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, 2010 9 páginas, 2 figuras.-- PACS number(s): 05.40.-a, 05.65.+bZipf’s law is the most common statistical distribution displaying scaling behavior. Cities, populations or firms are just examples of this seemingly universal law.
Ricard V. Solé +3 more
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Power Law Signature in Indonesian Population [PDF]
The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in two regional terms, i.e.: kabupaten and kotamadya.
Ivan Mulianta +2 more
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Many empirical size distributions in economics and elsewhere follow Zipf?s law. Starting from the Gibrat assumption, it is essential to add a second as-sumption to explain this phenomenon.
Gerrit de Wit
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Comparison of Zipf’s law in textual content and oral discourse [PDF]
, 2015 Zipf’s law is a theory based on mathematics and linguistics that analyzes and quantifies how words are distributed within a text. It is possible to represent by graphs and statistical analyzes which are the terms that are repeated over so that a ranking ...
Cassettari, Rafael-Roeck-Borges +3 more
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The Brevity Law as a Scaling Law, and a Possible Origin of Zipf's Law for Word Frequencies. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2020 Corral Á, Serra I.
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Can simple models explain Zipf’s law for all exponents?
H. Simon proposed a simple stochastic process for explaining Zipf’s law for word frequencies. Here we introduce two similar generalizations of Simon’s model that cover the same range of exponents as the standard Simon model.
Servedio, Vito D. P. +1 more
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Physical Review ResearchThe growth dynamics of complex systems often exhibit statistical regularities involving power-law relationships. For real finite complex systems formed by countable tokens (animals, words) as instances of distinct types (species, dictionary entries), an ...
Pablo Rosillo-Rodes +2 more
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Zipfs Law for Cities: A Cross Country Investigation [PDF]
This paper assesses the empirical validity of Zipf¿s Law for cities, using new data on 73countries and two estimation methods ¿ OLS and the Hill estimator.
Kwok Tong Soo
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Deviations from Zipf’s Law for American cities: an empirical examination [PDF]
, 2008 This work presents a simple method for calculating deviations regarding city size and the size which would correspond to it with a Pareto exponent equal to one unit (Zipf’s Law).
Rafael, González-Val
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Does China's Urban Development Satisfy Zipf's Law? A Multiscale Perspective from the NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Data. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Wu Y, Jiang M, Chang Z, Li Y, Shi K.
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